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Jul 18, 2022 18 tweets 8 min read Read on X
It's a while since a darknet market had an interesting new UX. Here's a bit about the dark web's Incognito Market
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There are a couple of new CAPTCHAs to get through before hitting the sign up/login page
Once you're registered, you'll also be asked to decrypt a PGP message before you're allowed back in
On registering, you are provided with a random secret login word you need to use every time, as well as a mnemonic. Then you are assigned a random avatar
Other security measures include a Canary and your own personal links to bookmark to access the market in future
And finally, we're in. It is a clean and attractive interface
First-timers can check their DNM knowledge with an OPSEC quiz
There are a lot more questions than I thought there would be
Still going. One takeaway is that English is not the first language of whoever wrote the quiz
Being a girly swot, I was hoping to get to the end and get my score
But the questions started to repeat themselves, so eventually I gave up. I'd say I was proud of my knowledge, but most of the questions had only one answer that made any sense
The terms of service are interesting. This is a pure drugs market - no fraud stuff, porn, weapons etc. The sale of fent is banned and vendors who show a negative fentanyl test get a "FENT FREE" banner
Also a new one for DNMs - democratic governance. I think this is a bit of a novelty and unworkable in the long term for any major decision-making, but an interesting experiment
They have a bug bounty, which seems to promise relatively low rewards, but presumably these will rise if the market gains traction
The market accepts BTC and XMR deposits and also has an exchange for those who can't figure out how to get their own Monero. It seems to be an on-market wallet, moving away from the "walletless" approach favored by WHM
A leaderboard. Not sure of its function
Set your local currency, and you're good to go
Please note this thread is not meant to be an endorsement in any way
~fin

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1)Today Ross Ulbricht starts his tenth year in prison for creating and running Silk Road, the first mass-marketed point-and-click #darkweb drugs bazaar. People often ask my opinion of Ross and his sentence. It’s complicated, but here goes. A #Thread 🧵
2)Ross Ulbricht is arguably one of the most influential figures of last decade. I’ll try and explain my reasoning. This is going to be long
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We are closing in on the one year anniversary since the dark web's Whitehouse Market shut down. I thought I'd take the opportunity to list out a few of the notable #darkweb "ones that got away"
A #thread 🧵 with pics and links
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I went and looked at my Scrivener file for the outline of "Silk Road" I wrote to pitch to publishers in 2012. This was my note for what was supposed to be the last chapter
I got the book deal, but boy did the story change over the course of the next few months when I was writing it!
Haha, remember this @nc2y ?
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Someone recently asked me to do a people of the Silk Road darknet drugs market - Where Are They Now update, so here it is in a Tweetstorm. Buckle in, it’s going to be a long one - a thread
#darkweb #darknet #silkroad #wherearetheynow
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